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Prime version of van Dyck's first equestrian painting of Charles I, Charles I with M. de St Antoine, 1633 Charles I with M. de St Antoine is an oil painting on canvas by the Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck, depicting Charles I on horseback, accompanied by his riding master, Pierre Antoine Bourdon, Seigneur de St Antoine.
The painting shows the youthful Martin wearing a harness and a fashionable hat sitting on his splendid white horse. He has almost entirely cut his fire-red cloak in two with the sword in his right hand, while a naked beggar sitting on the ground to the right is pulling at one half of the cloak.
The original statue of King Henry IV depicts the king riding his horse, which is placed on top of a central raised pedestal. [2] At each of the four corners of the pedestal is a bronze statue of a chained slave. [2] The pedestal's design was made by Ludovico Cigoli with the help of Pietro Tacca, Pietro Francavilla and Francesco Bordoni in its ...
[2] The 'king' mentioned in this verse is interpreted by Chazal as referring to the Messiah. In the discussion regarding this verse in the Babylonian Talmud ( Sanhedrin 98a), a story is told of the Persian king Shevor, who says to Samuel, one of the Amoraim , "You say that the Messiah will come on a donkey; I will send him the riding horse that ...
The Osmington White Horse in 2013 The Osmington White Horse in 1883. The Osmington White Horse is a hill figure cut into the limestone of Osmington Hill just north of Weymouth in Dorset in 1808. It is in the South Dorset Downs in the parish of Osmington. [1] The figure depicts King George III riding his horse and can be seen for miles around ...
The Equestrian Portrait of Charles I (also known as Charles I on Horseback) is a large oil painting on canvas by Anthony van Dyck, showing Charles I on horseback. Charles I had become King of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1625 on the death of his father James I, and Van Dyck became Charles's Principal Painter in Ordinary in 1632.
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, in his 1916 novel The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (filmed in 1921 and 1962), provides an early example of this interpretation, writing, "The horseman on the white horse was clad in a showy and barbarous attire. . . . While his horse continued galloping, he was bending his bow in order to spread pestilence abroad.
At the end of the series, Aragorn returns to Gondor and is named its official king. Along with Gandalf (sage/prophet) and Frodo Baggins (saviour/priest), Aragorn completes the triune representation of Christ in the series as its king. [26] Gandalf the wizard in the novel The Lord of the Rings and Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings (film series).